Social Sciences and Humanities College

College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) aspires to stand in harmony to serve the community. The college was established in 20012/13 with 38 staff members and 53 students. During its establishment, it was composed of three departments. These are English Language and Literature, Theatre Arts and Civics and Ethical Studies departments. Currently the college has seven under graduate programs these are English Language and Literature, Theatre Arts and Civics and Ethical Studies, governance and development, psychology, sociology and pedagogical science. In addition to the aforementioned programs, The College has planned to open new undergraduate and post graduate program in the upcoming academic year. Currently, College of Social Sciences and Humanities has more than 1000 regular students in seven departments and 110 academic staffs.

College of social science and humanities also working on research and community services that improve the life of society while preparing students to function as responsible, independent and creative citizens and engaged in lifelong learning. Its role in bringing into effect the GTP of the country is paramount.

Mission, Shared Vision, Goals and Core Values of CSSH

Mission

The collage has the following missions.

• To produce graduates who are knowledgeable, attitudinally mature and practically innovative,
• To supply relevant and demanded technology and knowledge that address national and community level development problems to help make operations of the government and non-government organizations efficient, effective and competitive, and
• To provide training and consulting services to the community and the government.

                                                                                 ማስታወቂያ

                                                                      ለትምህርት ፈላጊዎች በሙሉ!

የወልቂጤ ዩኒቨርሲቲ የቢዝነስና ኢኮኖሚክስ ኮሌጅ በ2011 የትምህርት ዘመን በመደበኛ እና በሳምንቱ መጨረሻ የእረፍት ቀናት /ቅዳሜና እሁድ/ ትምህርት ሚኒስቴር ባወጣው የመግቢያ መስፈርት መሰረት አዲስ ተማሪዎችን በድህረ-ምረቃ ትምህርት ፕሮግራም፡-

• Accounting and Finance
• Economics
• Master of Business Administration/MBA/
• Project Planning and Management

በወልቂጤ፣ ቡታጅራ እንዲሁም ከግሪን ምርምርና ልማት ኢንስቲትዩት ጋር በመተባበር በአዲስ አበባ በከፈትነው ካምፓስ ከሃምሌ 15/2011 ዓ.ም ጀምሮ ተማሪዎችን ተቀብሎ ለማስተማር ዝግጅቱን አጠናቅቋል፡፡

በመሆኑም መስፈርቶችን የምታሟሉ አመልካቾች የዩኒቨርሲቲው ዋናው ሬጅስትራር ፅ/ቤት ወደፊት በሚያሳውቀው የምዝገባ ጊዜ መመዝገብ የምትችሉ መሆኑን እናሳውቃለን፡፡

                                                                                 ወልቂጤ ዩኒቨርሲቲ

                                                                               ‹‹ለጥበብ እንተጋለን!››

           College of Medicine and Health Sciences

As one of the pioneered colleges, college of health science that came into being in 2005 E.C allowed to use its full effort for public health professionals at its beginning. Initially the college had hosted 56 Students, with 4 instructors. Since back the college showed remarkable achievements in the academic, research and in the provision of health care services. Currently it has five departments; namely: public health, medicine, midwifery, nursing and medical laboratory sciences. For these program a total of 1299 students were admitted and at this time they are getting their training.

 To aid the government’s most innovative program, the college gives an emphasis for training of Health professionals in large quantity and high quality; it also serves as a training center for the Zone. Since the FMoH and the university had given an emphasis the college is on establishing teaching hospital; hoped that it will start in the near future.

Apart from strengthening academic agenda; the college has been proactively conducting many multidisciplinary & health centric research activities, providing community services and involving in community based education programs to serve the surrounding community.

To realize the mental picture of the university the college employed 153 competent academic staffs that could run the commenced program effectively and efficiently. From 98 academic staffs on duty, thirty five are (35) Medical Doctors, twenty one (21) are Public health researcher (MPH), 15 are   biomedical researchers (MSc), seven (8) are nursing specialist and midwifery specialist (MSc) and 23 are BSc. staffs.

Till now, Variety of rigorous researches and community service projects have been designed and implemented in line with national and local thematic areas for research. Since it is a third Generation University till now   the college involved in around 50 scientifically robust researches and three community service projects have been implemented. Some of these research articles are submitted to peer reviewed international journals for publication and the output is communicated for relevant stakeholders to collaborate for intervention.

Future direction

College of medicine and health sciences aimed to achieve its mission by promoting itself to institution level by the year 2017/2018. Furthermore our college intends to launch master of public with human nutrition, reproductive health and epidemiology programs by the year 2018. To enhance community based education the college inspire to have its centers with complete facilities for students and staffs around three selected sites in our catchment area.

Table: Current Active Staff Profile of medicine and health Sciences College, 2010 E.C